<aside> 🌖 Do not think of yourself as a crescent moon, waiting for someone else to fill in the missing part of you. When you stand alone like a full moon, already complete in yourself, you will meet another person who is whole and complete just like you, and between you two, a healthy relationship can grow. Do not try and fit yourselves to each other to make one whole moon. Instead, be more like two full moons. You’ll respect each other’s individuality and interests while creating a relationship in which each of you shines brightly on the other.

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<aside> 🧙🏻‍♂️ If meritocracy is an aspiration, those who fall short can always blame the system; but if meritocracy is a fact, those who fall short are invited to blame themselves.

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<aside> 🌠 Il n'y a pas de honte à préférer le bonheur.

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<aside> 🈳 But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

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<aside> 📖 For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then?

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<aside> 🧠 Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

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<aside> 🐈 There are many more ordinary hours in life than extraordinary ones. We wait in line at the supermarket. We spend hours commuting to work. We water our plants and feed our pets. Happiness means finding a moment of joy in those ordinary hours.

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<aside> 🌌 Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.

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<aside> 🐥 Le bonheur, c’est de continuer à désirer ce que l’on possède.

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